If you're a mod author with access to our private mod author forums (that's about 7,000 of you) then you'll find a new forum has been setup for discussion about NMM along with the download location to get the client. While NMM currently only supports Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas you'll be able to access the beta whether you've modded these three games or not.

Participation is optional and you don't have to use the client, but if you're a mod author you will notice that the layout of file pages has been changed slightly to accommodate NMM's features. These new features will, naturally, only work if you have NMM installed.

I'm hoping this testing phase will be short-lived and there aren't too many bugs to squash. If all goes to plan, we'll be going in to open beta, for everyone, very soon. Stay tuned.

My thanks go out to the small group of mod authors who have already helped us iron out some bugs and features thus far.